Amiga One X 1000 and Xena/Xorro

[Thorham]

Finally, AmigaOS' multitasking should be able to meet the hard realtime requirements

Don't count on it.

even though it isn't a "realtime multitasking" OS.

It's indeed not, and therefore unreliable for certain real time applications.

Want to do real time 'stuff'? Use a real time OS and don't mess around (right tool for the job).

[Thorham]

As far as non-realtime desktop OSes go, AmigaOS has a nice and simple scheduler, low switching times, and it's not going to suddenly go off and do maintenance tasks in the background... unless I tell it to. That does make meeting the timing requirements easier. Simply setting the task priority for my CNC task higher than most other tasks should do it.

If you're running your own software, you could adapt it to turn the OS off. Don't know how easy that is with AOS4+ (same for turning it back on), but it's what I'd do with AOS1/2/3.

Anyway, my first post wasn't intended to be negative. Perhaps the tone was wrong?

[Thorham]

To produce anything that is more durable than a toy found in a Happy Meal ?

It's probably more interesting, too.

[Thorham]

Of course, many of you will say these are silly ideas

Well, the first one is silly, because you could just sample the micro drive tapes (they're tapes, right?), and use some software to convert the samples to binaries.

For the second one, why bother with floppies, if you can just download KG's WHDLoad packs? Then again, floppies are something I personally don't miss (my A1200 doesn't even have a disk drive). Could have nostalgic value (not for me, though, I'm not into Amiga for the nostalgia).

The third one is certainly interesting

[Thorham]

Eh wait :eek: Like a "real" SID chip

Yes, and you wouldn't have to stop at one SID.